Optimised Calibration Method for Six-Port Junction

A dual-tone technique is used to produce multi-samples in optimising calibration of six-port junction. More accurate results are achieved by using the least-square method and excluding those samples which may cause bigger errors. A 0.80 1.10 GHz microwave integrated circuit (MIC) six-port reflectometer is constructed. Nine test samples are used in the measurement. With Engens calibration procedure, the difference between the HP8510 and the six-port reflectrometer is in the order of 0.20 dB/1.5° for most cases, above 0.50 dB/5.0° at boundary frequency . With the optimised method, the difference is less than 0.10 dB/1.0° for most cases, and the biggest error is 0.42 dB/2.1° for boundary frequencies.